In its campaign to pressure elite US colleges to make a wide range of policy changes, the administration of President Donald Trump has come down hardest on Harvard University. In what it’s framed as an initiative to fight campus antisemitism and enforce civil rights protections,

The US president's ramped-up threats are seen by many as an attempt to reshape a stronghold of the left. Could he succeed?

U.S. District Court Judge Allison Burroughs agreed to extend a temporary restraining order preventing the Trump administration from enforcing its action, after the government gave the school a 30-day deadline to challenge its revocation of Harvard’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification.

Attorneys for Harvard University and the Trump administration faced off in court Thursday – as the embattled school held its commencement not far away – in a case involving the administration’s bid to ban the enrollment of foreign students.